What is FilesLocker-Christmas Ransomware?
When you want your product to reach a wider audience, you have to make sure that your product “speaks” a number of different languages. Unfortunately, this is also something that malware developers are aware of. For example, FilesLocker-Christmas Ransomware is a malicious infection that targets users who speak English, Russian, and Chinese. If you are one of those users who got infected with this malware, you should do yourself a favor and remove FilesLocker-Christmas Ransomware from your system immediately. For the manual removal instructions, please scroll down to the bottom of this description. Also, do not forget that it is always a good idea to invest in a legitimate antispyware application.
Where does FilesLocker-Christmas Ransomware come from?
The name of this infection alone is enough to realize that this is not a stand-alone program. This is a newer version of the FilesLocker Ransomware infection. What’s more, normally, it is not possible to apply the same decryption tool across several versions of the same program, but with FilesLocker Ransomware variants, it should be possible to decrypt your files.
On the other hand, it would be perfect if you didn’t have to deal with this infection in the first place. What would it really take to avoid FilesLocker-Christmas Ransomware? The answer is: attentiveness. Although it sounds simple, users very often forget how important it is to remain attentive when they encounter unfamiliar content online.
FilesLocker-Christmas Ransomware and other similar ransomware infections get distribution via spam email attachments. It means that users download and open ransomware installer files themselves. Just because the received file looks like an online shopping invoice, it doesn’t mean it is one. Check whether you really purchased something from that particular store! Or if you received a random notification from a financial institution, check once again whether you even have an account there. Don’t open attachments just because. And if you feel that this one file is important, you can also scan it with a security tool before opening it, thus saving yourself the trouble of dealing with FilesLocker-Christmas Ransomware and other similar infections.
What does FilesLocker-Christmas Ransomware do?
Unfortunately, if FilesLocker-Christmas Ransomware managed to enter your system, you will have to wait for it to complete the encryption processes. Once the program has encrypted your files, it opens three ransom notes in all three languages, changes your desktop wallpaper, opens a Pastebin link on your default browser, and launches a program window, which you can easily close with Task Manager.
If all the new windows and wallpapers weren’t enough for you to understand that you are infected, FilesLocker-Christmas Ransomware also plays a text-to-speech audio which says “Hello, Merry Christmas, Attention! Your documents, images, databases and other important information have been encrypted!”
In order to decrypt your files, FilesLocker-Christmas Ransomware requires you to buy 0.3 Bitcoin (more than 1,000 USD) and send the money to the payment address. Then you should email your ID to the criminals behind this infection, and they say that they “will create a decryption tool for you.” But where is the guarantee that these criminals would really do that? Please do not even think of spending any money on these hackers. The truth is that the malware creators have released keys for decryption of FilesLocker-Christmas Ransomware and other previous FilesLocker versions, but you have to keep the ransom notes to decrypt your files. Thus, there is no need to purchase the decryption key from these criminals.
How do I remove FilesLocker-Christmas Ransomware?
This program does not drop additional files and does not create the point of execution, so you do not need to remove registry entries or anything like that. You just have to delete the installer file that launched FilesLocker-Christmas Ransomware. If you cannot find the file, scan your computer with a reliable antispyware tool, and it will locate all malicious files immediately.
Please don’t forget to leave the ransom note files intact because you will need them to restore your data. On the other hand, if you have all of your files backed up on an external hard drive, you can delete the encrypted files together with FilesLocker-Christmas Ransomware, and then just transfer the healthy copies back into your computer. It is up to you which way you want to deal with this.
Manual FilesLocker-Christmas Ransomware Removal
- Remove suspicious files from your Desktop.
- Go to the Downloads folder.
- Remove the most recently downloaded files.
- Run a full system scan with SpyHunter.
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